Sentences with phrase «binding emissions restrictions»
On Friday afternoon, three non-governmental organizations charged that a «secret Mexican text» was being drafted that could, following Japan's lead early in the week, end efforts to create new binding emissions restrictions to replace those that expire in 2012 under the Kyoto Protocol.
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Under this scheme, investors could earn credits for projects that cut emissions in developing nations even though the host country faced no binding restriction on its output of these gases.
Much of the rhetoric pressing for a new agreement was framed as «sealing the deal» on a new internationally legally - binding restriction on greenhouse gas emissions building on the model represented by the dead - end 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
That fight had been particularly intense in negotiations shaping the Kyoto Protocol, the first climate treaty with binding restrictions on emissions from some countries.
He said it was unfair to ask developing nations to accept binding emissions cuts and other restrictions being pushed for already industrialized states.